Ipswich Jets v Burleigh Bears at North Ipswich Reserve on Saturday, April 29 – 3pm
\nIpswich Jets
\n1. Wes Conlon 2. Michael Purcell 3. Ben White 4. Tu’u Maori 5. Richard Pandia 6. Chris Ash 7. Dane Phillips (c) 8. Mitch Carpenter 9. Luke Capewell 22. Tyson Lofipo 11. Sam Martin 12. Seb Pandia 13. Rory Humphreys 15. Lachlan Roe 16. Huskie Teatau 18. Peter Whittaker 21. Nathan Gaulton
\nCoach: Ben Walker and Shane Walker<\/p>\n
Burleigh Bears
\n1. Kurtis Rowe 2. Henare Wells 3. Sami Sauiluma 4. Connor Broadhurst 19. Daniel Vidot 6. Keanu Te Kiri 7. Daniel Schwass 8. Luke Page (c) 9. Christopher Law 10. Matt White 11. Jamie Dowling (c) 12. Hayden Schwass 13. Parahi Wilson 5. Sam Coster 16. Darren Griffiths 17. Dylan Kelly 18. Paterika Vaivai
\nCoach: Jim Lenihan<\/p>\n
LAST TIME THEY PLAYED ROUND 20 2016
\nBURLEIGH BEARS 46 (Waka Wanahi 2, Lachlan Burr, Kurtis Rowe, Luke Page, Pat Politoni, Cameron Cullen tries; Jamal Fogarty 9 goals) def IPSWICH JETS 26 (Michael Purcell 2, Wes Conlon, Liam Capewell, Haydan Lipp tries; Haydan Lipp 2, Wes Conlon goals) at Charleville Showgrounds.
\nHead to Head: Burleigh 22 Ipswich 14 Drawn 2<\/p>\n
ROUND 9 2017
\nThe Bears are coming to town and it doesn\u2019t make great reading for the Jets.
\nThe Jets haven\u2019t beaten the Bears since 2013.The Jets have lost their last five games to the Bears and last three at the North Ipswich Reserve.<\/p>\n
The Bears have come to Ipswich before and handed out some punishment to the Jets<\/p>\n
In 2014 the Jets found themselves 36-0 down at half time and in the second half it didn\u2019t get a whole lot better. Losing 50-12 in what was the Jets biggest loss for 2014.
\nIf that isn\u2019t enough it was also their biggest ever loss to the Bears beating the previous 42-8 loss in 2001, and the Jets worst home loss since a 58-4 loss to Townsville in 1998.<\/p>\n
The last time the Jets beat the Bears was August 2013.
\nIpswich 40 (Ian Lacey, Keiron Lander, Brendan Marshall, Sam Martin, Dane Phillips, Tasi Tasi, Javarn White tries, Marshall 6 goals) def Burleigh 22<\/p>\n
BEARS
\nThe Bears are in 11th place but they seem to always fire up for the Jets. The Bears sit in attack have 104 points and in defence 177.
\nThat\u2019s 13 points per game in attack and 22 in defence on average.<\/p>\n
The Bears had won two games in a row and then came up against a Hunters\u2019 side that showed just how good they can be on their day.
\nThe Hunters gave the Bears nothing. Dominating every single facet of play.<\/p>\n
The Hunters made a staggering six more line breaks, had 57% of the ball and made 482 more meters when they did have the ball.
\nFinal score line of 42-6 reflected all those stats.<\/p>\n
BEARS TO WATCH
\nDANIEL VIDOT
\nVidot is an ex Jet having played seven games for the Jets in 2015. Vidot is a huge man who brings the ball back strongly. If he isn\u2019t needed by the Titans again he will be with the Bears. Even though he was on a losing side against the Hunters he still made 14 runs and 116m.<\/p>\n
KURTIS ROWE
\nBears fullback Kurtis Rowe has been dangerous for the Bears and injects himself into the game at the right time to make an impact on the Bears\u2019 left hand side. Rowe scored the first try last week after a minute.<\/p>\n
LUKE PAGE
\nPage is another former Jet who loves to charge into the line and scatter defenders. Page shows plenty of enthusiasm but can get found in defence being slow to react. The Jets\u2019 small men will be around him waiting.<\/p>\n
JETS
\nThe Jets are sitting in 9th place with three wins and the last two in a row.
\nThe Jets\u2019 attack is 174 points which is 21 points per game, nearly double the Bears. While in defence the Jets have let in 201 which is 25 points per game on average.<\/p>\n
Against the Magpies the Jets forced them into ineffective tackling. The Jets offloaded 22 times, of which Seb Pandia was seven times.
\nThe Magpies had to stay up and make double efforts which forced them into 32 ineffective tackles. Coupled with that they missed 46 tackles as well.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s a lot of chances presented to the Jets.
\nThe Jets have offloaded 195 times this season; that\u2019s 24 times per game.<\/p>\n
JETS TO WATCH
\nLUKE CAPEWELL
\nCapewell had his best game against Souths, at hooker too. He was smart and deliberate in what he did and could have had three tries. Capewell will be looking for big tired Bears and taking advantage of his Jets\u2019 mates having run them around.<\/p>\n
CHRIS ASH
\nI love watching Ash pass the ball, he has a beautiful action and picks when to hit his outside men. If you\u2019re a back at the Jets you know he\u2019s going to put it just where you want. Ash executed a great short ball for a try on Sunday.<\/p>\n
SEBASTIAN PANDIA
\nGood luck stopping him Bears. He\u2019s a wrecking ball. Pandia was great against the Magpies. He made 24 tackles which was the most for any Jet, 18 runs which again was the most and 143 meters which was the most ground made.
\nPlenty of history between these two clubs, they seem to fire up to meet us and we haven\u2019t beaten them since 2013.
\nThe Jets haven\u2019t won yet this year at home having won three games on the road. The Bears are a great place to record win number one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3960,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[],"post_layout":[],"class_list":["post-2909","club_news","type-club_news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipswichjets.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/club_news\/2909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipswichjets.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/club_news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipswichjets.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/club_news"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipswichjets.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipswichjets.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/club_news\/2909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipswichjets.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/3960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipswichjets.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipswichjets.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2909"},{"taxonomy":"post_layout","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipswichjets.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/post_layout?post=2909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}